36.9% ▲ +52.0%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 36.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Chatswood West · Suburb / Locality
Language in Chatswood West
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people speak a language other than English in Chatswood West compared to the rest of the country. About 37% of residents use another language at home, which is 15 percentage points above the national figure. This makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas at this level.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin (13.3%) and Cantonese (6.4%) are the most common non-English languages spoken here. While 60.9% of people speak only English, about 4.7% speak little or no English, a figure slightly above the Australian average.
4.7% ▼ -6.6%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Chatswood West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10892/chatswood-west/topic/language